The Bay Area’s tallest building is almost finished. The structural phase of construction on the $1.1 billion Salesforce Tower in downtown San Francisco was completed this week, and the building is expected to open in early 2018.
Workers broke ground on the project four years ago, and it now stands almost 1,000 feet tall.
"There’s almost no point in San Francisco that you can be in today without seeing this tower,” said Supervisor Jane Kim at the tower’s topping-off ceremony on Thursday. “Whether you’re in the Sunset or the Richmond, this is truly changing the skyline."
Seventy percent of the building has already been leased to companies including Salesforce, Bain & Co. and Accenture. Salesforce alone will have offices on floors 3 to 30, and plans to have a total of 10,000 employees working out of this and two adjacent buildings.